Getting Started: About this Guide
This guide contains the online resources developed around the concepts of History of Science, Medicine and Technology. Be sure to use other subject guides appropriate to your research area to find additional resources.
Key Resources
- IsisCB Explore This link opens in a new windowThis is the open-access search interface for the History of Science Society's ISIS Current Bibliography. It includes nearly 200,000 interlinked bibliographic citations to books, chapters, articles, dissertations, and reviews from 1974 to present. New! Isis Cumulative Bibliography, 1913-1975 is now available to browse: cumulative.isiscb.org.
- History of Science, Technology & Medicine This link opens in a new windowInternational Bibliography that includes citations to the literature of the history of science, technology, and medicine in many languages.
[Coverage: 1976-present]
- Oxford encyclopedia of the history of American science, medicine, and technologyThis 2014 encyclopedia is an excellent starting place for all research having to do with history of science, medicine and technology in the United States.
Also available on paper in Shields Library in the Shields Reference area (second floor). Call number: Q127.U6 O95 2014 - Consortium for the History of Science, Technology and MedicineThe CHSTM's Special Collections Search Hub allows simultaneous searching of more than 20 major special collections and archives in the field.
More generally, the Consortium brings together educational, cultural and research institutions from three continents to promote HSTM. It awards fellowships for research at member institutions, hosts working groups, lectures and more on HSTM topics.
